Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since another part of that interest entailed a loan-for which Beck was a guarantor-to Levine's company from Seattle's First National Bank, Levine saw what Dave meant. "I asked Mr. Beck, 'Well, you win, what do you want?' He said, 'I would like to have my son as president of the company and to have him have the complete say-so of drivers and of trucks.' So I agreed. That is what I had to do." Junior promptly became K & L's president, and next day the whisky truck...
...Construction of a $65 million cantilever bridge across the Mississippi to New Orleans' undeveloped West Bank, fulfilling a century-old New Orleans dream of bridging the river...
...changed man. You won't have any trouble from me," said affable Bank Robber Theodore (Teddy) Green, 41, to Federal Prisons Director James Bennett, after an unsuccessful 1955 breakout attempt from a Massachusetts penitentiary* had led to his transfer to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Last week a report sent by Bennett to Attorney General Herbert Brownell showed that Green has not changed at all: he had been caught organizing a major escape from The Rock. In the prison's history there have been only eleven major escape attempts, none successful...
...GERMAN BANK TRUSTS, splintered into 30 postwar regional units by Allied decartelizers, are rapidly consolidating, with two biggest pre-1947 trusts leading way. Successors to Deutsche Bank Group (assets: $1.8 billion) have voted to unite, and successors to Dresdner Bank-Group (assets: $1.2 billion) will vote to combine this month...
After wind, the most important item is probably clay, so that following the building of any windbreaks, Harvard would do well to cover at least one bank of the discouraging tennis lands with a clay surface instead of the present hard top that kills sneakers, tennis balls, bounces, and enthusiasm...